Stopper-extractor



(No Model.) 3 B. .J. GREELY.

STOPPBR EXTRACTOR.

No. 379,0l0.

Patented Mar. 6, 1888.

UNITE STArEs PATENT O FICE.,

BENJAMIN J. GREELY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

STOPPER-EXTRACTO R.

SPECIPICATION formng part of Letters Patent No. 379,010. dated March 6, 1888.

i Application filed September 3, 1887. Serial No. 248.736. (No model.)

To ZZ whom 't may concern.-

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN J GREELY, of Boston, in the County of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful stopper-Extractor, of which the following is a specifioation, reference being had to the acconpanying drawings, in which* Figure 1 is a central vertical section of a portion of a corked bottle with my new extractor in place. Fig. 2 is a section online 2 2 of Fig.

1. Figs. 3 and t are views of my new extractor.

My new corkext'actor is au improvement upon extractors of the kind shown in Loffler's patent, No. 59, 241, dated October 30,1866, and Englesdorff s patent, No. 172,104, dated January 11, 1876; and my invention consists of a .piece of metal having a lengthwise groove and at one end a sidewise extension, the lengthwise groove forming a passage for the escape of air and gas from the bottle, whereby the cork is not only Inore easily pulled, but the pent-up air or gas is given a chance to escape, thus ob- Viating the annoyance now caused by the popping and spurting in opening Champagne, cider, and the like.

My extractor is best made of a piece of wire, a, onecnd of which is bent to form a sidewise extension, a', which is preferably flattened, as shown. Theair-passage consists in a lengthwise groove, b, in the wire, the groove being preferably a straight groovc opposite the extension a', as shown.

My extractor is provided with a handle, a

made in various ways too obvious to need description.

When the extractor is used, the end of extension a' is inserted between the cork and the neck of the bottle, and is then forced below the inner end of the stopper and turned to engage the stopper. A slight pull is then sufficient to .Start the stopper, the air or gas rapidly escaping as soon as the bottom of the groove is passed beyond the inner end of thestopper. It is Very important that the air-passage should be a groove in the extractor, because it is thereby readily cleaned out if ologged and is not readily clogged. In those extractors in which the air- .passage is a bore through the extractor the )assa e is fre uentl clo ed, and is cleaned b bb out when clogged with considerable difficulty. g

lrroove b is preferably diametrically opposite the sidewise extension a', so that when the extension is turned to engage the inner end of the stopper theinner surface of the neck of the bottle forms a portion of the wall of the air-passage.

What I claim is- The improved stopper-extractor herein described, made of a piece of metal, a, having a lengthwise groove, b, in the surface of the extractor, and at one end a sidewise extension, a ,substautially as and for the purpose set fol-th.

BENJ AMIN J. GREELY. Witnesses:

EDWARD S. BEACH, JOHN B. SNOW. 

